Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970
10 best books like Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 (John D'Emilio): Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the Us Military, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940, A Queer History of the United States, Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A., Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law, Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship
| Author | Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0140235507 |
This ground-breaking book traces the emergence and growth of a lesbian community in Buffalo, New York, from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. Based on thirteen years of research and drawing upon the oral histories of forty-five women, authors Kennedy and Davis explore butch-femme roles, coming out,...
| Author | Randy Shilts |
| ISBN | 5551973522 |
So I read this book not necessarily because the topic particularly interests me, but because I read And the Band Played On and fell in love with Shilt's journalistic style. He is one of the many people our society lost because of AIDS and working my way through his three books has brought to my mind again...
| Author | Allan Bérubé |
| ISBN | 0743210719 |
This was a fascinating, and sometimes heartbreaking and infuriating, look at the GLBT men and women who came out while serving in the armed forces during WWII. It includes information on being gay on the home front as well.
In the 1940's, sodomy was a criminal act in the United States. Although...
| Author | George Chauncey |
| ISBN | 0465026214 |
The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century
Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of...
| Author | Michael Bronski |
| ISBN | 0807044393 |
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction
The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.
In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire,...
| Author | Martin Duberman |
| ISBN | 0452010675 |
This richly revealing anthology brings together for the first time the vital new scholarly studies now lifting the veil from the gay and lesbian past. Such notable researchers as John Boswell, Shari Benstock, Jeffrey Weeks and John D'Emilio illuminate gay and lesbian life as it evolved in places as...
| Author | Urvashi Vaid |
| ISBN | 0385472994 |
Since the decade to lift the ban on gays in the military, the emergence of gay conservatives, and the onslaught of antigay initiatives across America, the gay and lesbian community has been asking itself tough questions: Where should the movement go? What do we want? In Virtual Equality, veteran...
| Author | Jonathan Ned Katz |
| ISBN | 0452010926 |
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[October is Gay History Month, and in commemoration of this I recommend this seminal work as the quintessential record of gay history in America]
About the author: Katz taught as an adjunct at Yale University, Eugene Lang...
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law
| Author | Nancy D. Polikoff |
| ISBN | 0807044326 |
The debate over marriage equality for same-sex couples rages across the country. Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage boldly moves the discussion forward by focusing on the larger, more fundamental issue of marriage and the law. The root problem, asserts law professor and LGBT rights activist Nancy...
| Author | Kath Weston |
| ISBN | 0231110936 |
This is a book about gay families and what it means to be a homosexual in the context of non-biological kinship, exclusively in San Francisco, ‘Gay Mecca’, in the USA. It is about how they live their lives in the face of rejection or even being disowned by blood relatives, which has led many to build...
| Author | Henry Abelove |
| ISBN | 0415905192 |
Bringing together forty-two groundbreaking essays--many of them already classics--
The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
provides a much-needed introduction to the contemporary state of lesbian/gay studies, extensively illustrating the range, scope, diversity, appeal, and power of the work...
| Author | Nikki Sullivan |
| ISBN | 0814798411 |
Explores the ways in which sexuality, subjectivity and sociality have been discursively produced in various historical and cultural contexts
The book begins by putting gay and lesbian sexuality and politics in historical context and demonstrates how and why queer theory emerged in the...
| Author | Siobhan B. Somerville |
| ISBN | 0822324431 |
Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was “invented” as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature,...
| Author | Esther Newton |
| ISBN | 0226577600 |
For two years Ester Newton did field research in the world of drag queens—homosexual men who make a living impersonating women. Newton spent time in the noisy bars, the chaotic dressing rooms, and the cheap apartments and hotels that make up the lives of drag queens, interviewing informants whose...
Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America
| Author | Mary L. Gray |
| ISBN | 0814731937 |
Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph from the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities Section
Winner of the 2010 Congress Inaugural Qualitative...
| Author | Margot Canaday |
| ISBN | 0691135983 |
The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship...
Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians
Award-winning historian Lillian Faderman teams with journalist Stuart Timmons to write the first history of gay life in America's ultimate frontier town: Los Angeles
The exhortation to "Go West!" has always had a strong hold on the American imagination. But for the gays, lesbians, and transgendered...
| Author | David K. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0226401901 |
The McCarthy era is generally considered the worst period of political repression in recent American history. But while the famous question, "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" resonated in the halls of Congress, security officials were posing another question at least...
| Author | Joanne J. Meyerowitz |
| ISBN | 0674013794 |
How Sex Changed is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful human story about people who had a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. In the last century when many challenged the social categories...
Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
| Author | Regina G. Kunzel |
| ISBN | 0226462269 |
Sex is usually assumed to be a closely guarded secret of prison life. But it has long been the subject of intense scrutiny by both prison administrators and reformers—as well as a source of fascination and anxiety for the American public. Historically, sex behind bars has evoked radically different...
Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory
| Author | Michael Warner |
| ISBN | 0816623341 |
i'm not really sure i got a whole lot from this collection of essays in that it didn't broaden my horizons or challenge the way i think about things. i imagine it was pretty groundbreaking in 1993, but read today, a lot of the evisceration of popular theory (particularly in the fuss and sedgwick essays)...
| Author | Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick |
| ISBN | 0822314215 |
Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and truthfulness...
| Author | Neil Miller |
| ISBN | 1555838707 |
A unique and hugely absorbing narrative history of gay life—from Oscar Wilde to the first gay marriage performed in San Francisco in 2004—by the award-winning journalist and distinguished author of Out in the World and Sex- Crime Panic. Miller accompanies his narrative with essays and excerpts...
In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer...
